https://www.courthousenews.com/with-cohen-prison-bound-michael-avenattis-not-done-throwing-punches/ Though not error-free, the seven-page report that Avenatti released back in May has proven prescient and relevant in the wake of Cohen’s sentencing. The report disclosed for the first time that Cohen used the shell company Essential Consultants LLC to pay $130,000 to keep Daniels from revealing her alleged affair with Trump. Cohen has since admitted that in federal court. Less widely reported, Avenatti alleged Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg poured money into that same shell company within 75 days after the payment to Daniels. This detail has taken on a newfound significance in wake of reports that federal prosecutors have been investigating foreign money spilling into Trump’s inauguration. “All the chickens are coming home to roost,” Avenatti tweeted after the Wall Street Journal broke news of the probe. Both the Journal and the New York Times reported that the investigations arose out of the raid on Cohen’s properties and that prosecutors have been looking into a “prominent Ukraine oligarch” who attended Trump’s inauguration. “I do believe that it is Vekselberg,” Avenatti said, referring to reports that the Ukrainian-born oligarch donated $250,000 to the event. The New York Times reported that Vekselberg funneled the donation through his New York-based cousin and business associate Andrew Intrater, who also appears in Avenatti’s report in a section about “suspicious financial transactions” of about $500,000. “Mr. Vekselberg and his cousin Mr. Andrew Intrater routed eight payments to Mr. Cohen through a company named Columbus Nova LLC (‘Columbus’) beginning in January 2017 and continuing until at least August 2017,” Avenatti’s report said. Avenatti noted that Cohen has been forced to pay exactly that amount in a judgment for lying to a bank to obtain a home equity loan. “The timing of the funds I think would be interesting in that initial payment would have been made from the home equity line, but then it appears the next monies funded into that account to reimburse that would have come from Vekselberg,” he said. As reported by the Journal, Trump’s inaugural committee raked in more than double the previous record set by Barack Obama, with the heaviest donors including casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, AT&T and Boeing. Along with Novartis, AT&T was one of the corporations that quickly apologized in the wake of Avenatti’s report that exposed its financial ties with Cohen in May. “What I was trying to expose was the fact that Michael Cohen was utilizing various vehicles to sell influence to various entities and to sell access to the president of the United States,” Avenatti said. “I said at the time that I thought that when all of the records and evidence came out, that it would be shown that Michael Cohen did not do this on his own. And that Donald Trump knew what was going on, and participated in it and approved it.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...daniels-lawsuit-against-michael-cohen-n967171 Judge dismisses Stormy Daniels claim against Michael Cohen The porn actress still has a challenge pending against President Trump, regarding a nondisclosure agreement she signed. A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday formally dismissed porn actress Stormy Daniels' defamation claim against Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer. The civil allegation against Cohen was tossed "with prejudice," meaning that it's permanently done and Trump's one-time lawyer will "no longer face the threat of further litigation in this court or any other forum," according to the order by U.S. District Court Judge James Otero. Otero on Monday also denied Cohen's request for attorney fees. I wonder why Cohen's fees were not awarded compared to Trump's?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-avenatti-bankruptcy-20190212-story.html Michael Avenatti accused of hiding millions of dollars from bankruptcy court Michael Avenatti hid millions of dollars from the court overseeing his law firm’s bankruptcy and used much of the money for personal compensation, a former partner alleges in new court records. The firm, Eagan Avenatti, was required by law to file monthly reports on its income and spending during the year when it was under U.S. Bankruptcy Court protection from its creditors, starting in March 2017. Avenatti signed the reports under penalty of perjury as the firm’s managing partner and majority owner. But the reports did not disclose that Avenatti opened six bank accounts that received millions of dollars in legal fees during the bankruptcy, his former partner claims in court documents filed Tuesday night.
It does seem like Dems have a monopoly on pay for play and employ it every opportunity that they have.
Maybe he should run for president, establish a foundation used to pay his personal expenses, and have all sorts of foreigners donate millions to it.